Aaron Ward

UX Engineer at Google

San Francisco, California

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I'm a software engineer who enjoys thinking about user experience as much as solving difficult technical problems. ...

Experience

Volunteer Experience

  • Intern

    Global Health Corps

    Feb 2011 – May 2011

    4 mos

    Health

    Researched and identified high level contacts that could spread the word about Global Health Corps and expand our program to Latin America. In addition duties included, maintenance of the Latin American recruitment database while identifying and filling in gaps in the recruiting focus areas for Latin America and served as the primary contact for Latin America.

  • Participant

    Somos Hermanos

    Jul 2009 – Dec 2009

    6 mos

    Education

    Lived in a homestay and studied Spanish one-on-one. Became familiar with Latin American cultural, political and historical issues through weekly reading, lectures, discussions and biweekly trips. Volunteered in a variety of capacities and shadowed North and Central American doctors. The aim of Somos Hermanos is to improve the quality and access to health care for Latino populations in the US and Canada by increasing the number of bilingual, culturally competent health care providers who can effectively communicate with Latino patients.

  • Nursing Assistant/Patient Companion

    Hospital Rodolfo Robles Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

    Sep 2009 – Jul 2010

    11 mos

    Health

    Helped the nursing staff in preparing medication and maintaining the facilities. Primarily served as a companion to the sick, chatting and playing board-games with the patients. As Hospital Rodolfo Robles is the only public tuberculosis hospital in Guatemala, many of the patients had to travel from all corners of the country, and in some cases from other countries, to receive prolonged treatment.

Recommendations

Received (4)
  • Kayvon Ghashghai

    Kayvon Ghashghai

    Front End Engineer at HOVER Inc.

    October 23, 2014, Aaron worked with Kayvon in the same group

    Aaron has an keen sense of balancing the needs of a project, moving from analyzing larger structure of a project to focusing in on a focused task. He can support.

    We worked together on a project using the famo.us framework to build a tool for developers who want to use famo.us for a project but want a graphical interface to quickly mock up designs. Hashing out the needs of the project that were viable within the scope of our timeframe required a strong analytical approach that Aaron was more than up to the task. He also brought an indispensable aesthetic to the project.

    He was a crucial part of the team technically, and with his insights and style, the project just worked.
  • Dave Fetterman

    Dave Fetterman

    VP Engineering at Amperity

    August 19, 2014, Dave was senior to Aaron but didn’t manage directly

    Aaron worked at Famo.us as part of his Hack Reactor program group project. Aaron is a thoughtful engineer much of the team relied on to architect much of the project from the start. He also showed flashes of product intuition and understands building for other engineers. An engineer's engineer.

Accomplishments

6

Courses

  • Computer Organization & Systems
  • Global Poverty: Challenges and Hopes in the New Millennium
  • Mathematical Foundations of Computing
  • Programming Abstractions in C++
  • Programming Methodology
  • The Ethics, Methods and Pragmatics of Global Practice

5

Projects

  • Euler
  • Famo.us WYSIWYG
  • Pickle
  • Vortex of Narcissism
  • ng-Eocities

3

Languages

  • English
  • Japanese
  • Spanish

1

Organization

  • Somos Hermanos